Nantucket and other native places
Subtitle: the legacy of Elizabeth Alden Little
By: edited by Elizabeth S. Chilton and Mary Lynne Rainey
Publisher: State University of New York Press; SUNY Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9781438432533; 9781438432540
Description: The archaeology and histories of the Native peoples and earliest settlers of eastern Massachusetts come vividly to life in these pages. Leading archaeologists and anthropologists share the latest findings and interpretations on a wide range of topics, including the archaeology of the Jethro Coffin House, arguably the oldest house in Nantucket; the origin and significance of maize horticulture; the production and distribution of wampum; Native women sachems of Martha's Vineyard; Native vernacular architecture at Nantucket; the "Indian planting fields" at Concord; fertilizer and Native horticulture; the enduring strands of significance of drift whales; and an insightful examination of a seventeenth-century house in Duxbury. --

A tribute to the career of the influential archaeologist Elizabeth Alden Little (1926-2003), Nantucket and Other Native Places offers an essential introduction to the archaeology of eastern Massachusetts. The book includes an homage to Elizabeth Little's life and career by renowned archaeologist Dena F. Dincauze, as well as a comprehensive bibliography of her extensive published work. --Book Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The ancient dwelling on Sunset Hill: preliminary archaeological investigations at the Jethro Coffin House / Duncan Ritchie; title: Native American architecture on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts / Mary Lynne Rainey; title: Drift whales at Nantucket: the kindness of moshup / Elizabeth Alden Little; title: Island queens: women sachems on Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket in the colonial period / Kathleen J. Bragdon; title: Pilgrim subsistence: a seventeenth century profile from the John and Priscilla Alden House, Duxbury, Massachusetts / Tonya Baroody Largy and Mitchell T. Mulholland; title: The Indian planting fields in Concord, Massachusetts: influence of new techniques on archaeological explanatory models / Shirley Blancke; title: Wampum use in southern New England: the paradox of bead production without the use of political belts / Marshall Joseph Becker; title: The origin and spread of maize in New England / Zea Mays and Elizabeth S. Chilton; title: Limestone, shell, and the archaeological visibility of maize and beans in New England: a fertilizer hypothesis / Elizabeth Alden Little; title: An intellectual biography of Elizabeth Alden Little 1927-2003 / Dena Ferran Dincauze; title: Afterword / Ruel Little.